P. v. Hutchcraft
Filed 6/23/06 P. v. Hutchcraft CA4/3
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION THREE
| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ALLEN LEE HUTCHCRAFT, Defendant and Appellant. | G035628 (Super. Ct. No. 04NF0604) O P I N I O N |
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, Richard M. King, Judge. Affirmed.
Sharon M. Jones, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Pamela Ratner Sobeck and David Delgado-Rucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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Allen Lee Hutchcraft appeals his conviction on six counts of committing lewd acts upon or with a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, § 288, subd. (a))[1] and four counts of using minors for sex acts (§ 311.4, subd. (c)). He contends the court improperly admitted his confession, sentenced him to cruel and unusual punishment, and violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by imposing consecutive sentences. We find no error and affirm the judgment.
FACTS
On February 17, 2004, Detective Tracy Hittesdorf of the Anaheim Police Department arrested Hutchcraft at the El Dorado Motel for child molestation. The next day Hittesdorf interviewed Hutchcraft at Western Medical Center's jail ward unit where Hutchcraft had been taken for preexisting medical conditions such as diabetes. In the interview, Hutchcraft admitted taking nude photographs of five young girls, destroying the photographs, letting the girls touch his genitalia, letting â€
